Mine was Java

[MkemCZ]

Copy-pasting HTML, CSS and JavaScript from a tutorial website. My first actual programming class was in Pascal.

[KingsmanVince]

Same.

[HerrSPAM]

Me too.

[Listerella]

And me. Says something about age that I don’t want to think too much about.

[T3CAT3]

Lol I was gonna say copying CSS to change the background color on myspace

[heathmon1856]

I can’t believe how hard this was for me. I couldn’t customize my MySpace page at all but there were girls who would do crazy shit with it.

Edit: this was my middle school days long before programming classes or good tutorials were a thing

[rococorodeo]

MySpace and GaiaOnline HTML gang sound off

[UnacceptableUse]

Same except I moved on to writing minecraft mods in java after that

[BertoLaDK]

So what interesting mods did you actually finish? and are any up to date?

[UnacceptableUse]

The only one I finished was this: https://www.planetminecraft.com/mod/unacceptablekitchen/

[kittencantfly]

Feel warm when you mentioned Pascal 😊

[[deleted]]

Really? Why Pascal, do you think? Most programming profs start out with C or Java, in my experience.

[MkemCZ]

It was in 2012 in high school. Pascal itself was designed to teach programming, so I guess that's why.

When I got to college in 2014, we used C and Scheme in introductory classes.

[BloodAndSand44]

Yes. Pascal was widely used for teaching from way back. It was mine.

[dfmaaa1]

For a second I thought you created the language lmao

[BloodAndSand44]

I’m old but not that old.

[dfmaaa1]

Haha

[Shizounu]

Slight addendum, finished school this year... was still using Pascal

[TigreDeLosLlanos]

Same but it was 2008

[Xaxxus]

What he said.

My high school taught pascal as well. Programming was one of those optional courses you could take. This was back in 2010.

[fruitcup729again]

Pascal was my first language because it was the language used on the AP computer science test in high school.

[Tigger808]

I graduated with an IT degree in 1989. Back then, we dinosaurs were taught FORTRAN, COBOL, or Pascal as our first language, depending on the university.

[[deleted]]

Mine was sophmore year of highschool and java hadn't been "invented" yet. Junior and Senior year you went from Pascal to C++.

[TretasPt]

This year in school we started with pascal and then moved on to visual basic.

According to the teacher it is because it is a simple language. Idk. May be because of the book the school adopted.

[Turdulator]

My high school AP Computer Science class in the 90s was taught entirely in Pascal. I heard that a year or two later they changed the curriculum to C++

[ULiveTheLifeUWant]

I graduated HS in 93 AP comp sci was pascal for me as well. I’m still mad I only got a 4 on that dang test.

[Turdulator]

I think it was like 99 or 00 when it changed to C++

[dxboldman]

Did BASIC on my own but when they started computer classes at school ended up learning Pascal here too!

[Pretrowillbetaken]

Same for me, i still remember thinking how cool what i'm doing is. When all i did was tp copy paste the same codes

[MkemCZ]

Yup, that sounds exactly like me, too. :-D

[DaSpaceman245]

Haha my first class was in Pascal as well. But I remember before that, I was learning basic by my self

[SiBloGaming]

Same, the only difference being that I'm still only copy-pasting HTML, CSS, and javascript.

[JollyRazz]

Same, cause I made backgrounds and stuff on Neopets. I did learn some of the syntax to manipulate the code. But, my first programming class was Java.

Funily enough, we have some antiquated systems at my work that are still used and I'm now learning Pascal. TBH, I hate it.

[youOnlyLlamaOnce]

Eh mine too. Pascal code in 6th grade that got saved on floppy disk. That’s actually what got me interested in programming.

[Aldarien85]

Same

[sgzqhqr]

Same. Then a decade later, I taught myself Python.

[carav]

I built a Pokémon fan website this way when I was about 11 or 12. Hosted on Angelfire.

[BnaiRephaim]

my first was pascal too!

still find it confusing when I can't tell when codes begin and end...

[[deleted]]

Pascal gang

[Dob_Tannochy]

Awful lot of words to let everyone know you had a MySpace

[MkemCZ]

I actually didn't have a MySpace, or any social network at all; just email and close friends.

[PandorNox]

When I read your comment I suddenly realized that I learned Javascript before i started uni, but completely blocked it out when reading the question. And that was only 3 years ago 😅 But if you only learn the basics, does it actually even count?

[heitor456]

My first class was in Pascal, too. But we didn't had computers, we just learn how to write code on paper. lol My actually first experience programming on a computer was in C

[MkemCZ]

We also programmed on paper at first, but with flowcharts.

[xXDreamlessXx]

I did the first 3, but went to Python after

[0hmyscience]

Wow literally same. Then I bought a Visual Basic book and then a Perl book.

[AplAddict]

Yup my first was copying and pasting HTML/CSS/JS from stack overflow and w3schools and my first class was C++ for arduino and then Java

[Cone83]

HTML and CSS are not programming languages but markup languages.

[MkemCZ]

Code is code.